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Taisie MacDonnell is a quiet girl who loves knitting and Celtic music. When a traditional Irish group moves to her small town of Antrim, Maine, she’s thrilled. And that the handsome pipe player she met at a fair is one of the band members makes it all the more exciting.

Conn McLaren and his siblings that make up the band, The Black Swans, are wanderers, moving from place to place. They have a secret that they must hide, a curse they have been under for many years, placed on them by the Fae at the behest of their step-mother, Aoife.

Taisie has no idea that becoming involved with Conn, the handsome pipe player, will enmesh her in magic, a centuries-old enchantment and pursuit by the Fae.

N.W. Moors lives in Portland, Maine, the land of lobster and pine trees. She grew up in Connecticut and retired north (it’s nice along the coast in winter). She’s a voracious reader and avid traveler – she loves to visit Great Britain and Ireland. Researching trips meant that she tries to learn as much about the area as possible and listen to great Celtic music. She’s also a knitter and hiker/walker with two cats (the cats don’t walk).

She truly appreciates you sharing this adventure with her. She will continue to write about magic, love, and the small town of Antrim, Maine.

Without early memories or a family to tell her who she is, Andelyn instinctively knows that her life is in constant flux because she is hiding from someone dangerous and impossible to identify. When strangers kidnap her, Andelyn’s only way to escape is on an abandoned boat that rushes her through a secret underground river passage leading to Meridia, a mysterious land hidden inside the earth.

Buried deep within the walls of the palace there, Andelyn discovers a legend about the Envisage: a person with the uncanny power to save or destroy Meridia with their thoughts. But why doesn’t anyone seem to know who the Envisage is, and why are they so afraid to find out?

With the unresolved mystery of who she was running from in the first place, Andelyn begins to wonder if all of this could have something to do with her. Is she hiding from this Envisage that people seem so afraid to speak of? And why?

This much is clear: sometimes you risk more than your own fate when you find out who you are, especially if what you should have feared most is what you are capable of—and especially if fear changes everything.

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The alternate world of Meridia is carefully concealed, deep underground. When Andelyn runs from strange kidnappers, she discovers a hidden river cave that leads her to this secret world of endless possibilities and powers beyond her understanding.

After an imaginative childhood spent drawing pictures and writing, M.M. Warren attended Brigham Young University-Hawaii, where she studied visual art and began her first book.

She loved adventure and wanted to make an impact on the world, had a feeling that she needed to do this was through words and stories. With recommendations from friends from faraway places, she pursued her Masters of Children’s Literature Degree in Australia, where she was able to learn from classic and modern tales and to fall more in love with the platform delivered to the imagination through words and pictures.

She has enjoyed work as a news writer, a teacher, a parent, an accident-prone karate student, and a hopeless victim of wanderlust.

Goshen Cemetery lay quiet and peaceful under a benevolent spring sky. Darcy Campbell and her mother, Flora Tucker, had no inkling that in a few moments, the scene would change and they would face a horror on the ground and a threat from above, beyond their imaginations.

Becoming entangled in a centuries-old legend, being targeted by a group of ruthless men, and discovering a long-lost love were not in Darcy’s plans when she returned to her birth place, Levi, Oklahoma. She merely wanted to soak up the peace of her mother’s home and try to heal the wounds left from her husband’s death. Fate, however, had other plans for Darcy and Flora.

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Darcy. The previous feature was Darcy By Any Other Name by Laura Hile.

A native Oklahoman, Blanche Day Manos became a transplanted resident of Arkansas when she and her husband moved closer to their children.

A descendant of both Cherokee and Irish ancestors, she has a love for tradition, history, and the tales that accompany them.

A fan of cozy mysteries since childhood, Blanche devours the books of her favorite authors and is always on the lookout for new ones.

Blanche has written for many years and authored several books. Her articles, short stories and poems have appeared in periodicals and her weekly column, “Looking Back” appeared in The Tahlequah Daily Press for several years.

Since her move to Northwest Arkansas a few years back to be near her son and his family, Blanche’s days are filled with working on her current cozy mystery, public speaking promoting her books, and enjoying life only minutes away from those two most inspiring and fascinating characters, her grandchildren. Read more…

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